February 28, 2026
Aniela Jaffé, quoting Carl Jung: “We can know nothing about the substance of the psyche when the sole means of knowing anything is the psyche.“ What does the Psyche know that we don’t know? How do we know what Psyche knows? Is Psyche everything? Is there anything not-Psyche? Does that make Psyche God? Does Psyche know herself? What is beyond knowing? Not-knowing? What is it that we don’t know? How do we come to know what we don’t know? If Psyche is “the sole means of knowing anything,” how can there be anything psyche doesn’t know? And how do we know more than we know? Is it merely a matter of our realizing what we know? Of knowing what we know? Beyond what we know? Do we know everything Psyche knows now and just don’t realize it? What is the method of realization? Listening? Looking? Seeing? Hearing? Does that lead to knowing? Just sitting quietly and seeing, hearing, knowing, understanding what comes? How do we know what Psyche knows? Asking questions? Making inquiries? If we just sit quietly and ask questions, as I am doing here, now, will that lead us to realization? Are we Psyche interviewing Herself, knowing what she knows? Are questions the source of answers? Are better questions the source of better answers? Do we know more by wanting to know more? By asking, seeking, knocking? Is “The art of asking the right questions” the source to the source of all our knowledge? Does Psyche expand by way of the quality of our questions?
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